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ITWorks: Changing Lives In 16 Weeks

TechImpact

There are nearly 100,000 young adults between the ages of 18-24 living in southeast Pennsylvania and north Delaware who are under employed, or unemployed and are making approximately $11,000 per year. 4,000 changes a student’s life forever by covering the entire cost for one student to complete the program. Donate this.

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Guest Post: Why Haven’t Foundations Responded to the Newtown Shootings?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On a personal note, I come from a small town in Western Pennsylvania, where “people cling to their guns” as President Obama clumsily stated in the 2008 campaign. Indeed, my great, great grandfather Thomas Stehle came to this country as a gunsmith in the 1840s, so I understand how deeply rooted guns are for many people.

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Introducing NTEN's Newest Membership Partner: PANO

NTEN

NTEN is excited to announce our new partnership with the Pennsylvania Association of Nonprofit Organizations ! PANO is the statewide membership organization serving and advancing the charitable nonprofit sector through leadership, advocacy, education and other services in order to improve the overall quality of life in Pennsylvania.

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Apple’s frontline employees are struggling to survive

The Verge

It was nothing in his outside life that did this,” Bailey says. “It This quickly became one of Apple’s largest customer experience scandals , as people realized the company had intentionally slowed down older iPhone models to (supposedly) preserve their battery life. The Pennsylvania employee said his mental health started to suffer.

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How To Build Immunity To Burnout In The Workplace

Eric Jacobsen Blog

After several months of recovery and spending time reflecting on my unhealthy relationship with work, I decided to enroll in a doctoral program at The University of Pennsylvania. Wiens is a senior fellow at The University of Pennsylvania, and the director of the Penn Master’s in Medical Education Program.

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Redditors are spamming Kellogg’s job portal to support striking workers

The Verge

The jobs in question are permanent positions at Kellogg’s cereal plants in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, and Tennessee. Hearing Kellogg’s workers talk about being overworked, being paid low wages, and having a poor work-life balance resonates with others, he says. “It It’s very easy to empathize with the Kellogg’s workers.”.

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Truepill’s latest funding boosts valuation to $1.6B as it works on B2B side of healthcare

TechCrunch

Initially it was direct-to-consumer, but now we want to work with larger entities, including health plans, payers, life science companies and providers.”. “We were just launching our diagnostics and telehealth in August, and now we are building on that,” Umar Afridi, CEO and co-founder of Truepill, told TechCrunch. “We

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